This particular Stearman N2S-1 Bureau Number 3347, Serial Number 75-1124 is one of five known to still exist that were flown by President George Herbert Walker Bush as a cadet in the Navy. He flew her in training in the cold Minnesota winter at Wold- Chamberlain Airfield, Naval Air Station in Minneapolis. ( Now Minneapolis- St. Paul International). Open cockpits in February had to be brutal up here in the frigid north. He took his first flight in an NP-1 on November 21, 1942 and the last Minneapolis flight in his log was on February 9, 1943. He logged 82.5 hours in that span of time and passed all checks with no extra time or rechecks.

The assembly and rigging day keeps getting closer as more and more parts get their coat of yellow and any markings needed.

Cockpit systems and gauges are being finalized. It's one of those times where the project looks close to being finished because the larger parts are complete. There's plenty of detail work yet to be done ,though.